Button-fastener.



L. M. YOUNG.

BUTTON FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-30, I917.

Patented Nov. 6, 1917.

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citizen of the United States, residing at garment and enable the buttonto be de tached if desired, the object of the invention being to providean improved device of this character which is extremely cheap andsimple, which is strong and durable and by means of which a button maybe readily secured on a garment or the like, without sewing and stronglyheld in place.

The invention consists in the construe-.

tion, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan of a button fastenerconstructed and arranged in accordance with my invention, and showingthe same in use.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of a slightlymodified 7 form of my improved button fastener.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the same.

Fig. 5 is a plan of another modified form of my button fastener.

Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the same.

My improved button fastener consists essentially of a frame to lieagainst the inner side of a garment, fabric or the like, and around theeye of a button projected through an opening in the fabric, and thetongue extending across the frame and adapted to pass through the eye ofthe button.

In the form of my invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the frame and thetongue are integral and are constructed from a single piece of springwire of suitable gage and length. The frame comprises a ring 1 having aradially projecting loop 2 on one side which provides an inwardlyopening clears cific timrof Letters Patent.

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One end of the wire which forms a ring? is doubled as at 6. The opposingportion of the wire is passed through and"coiled around the doubledportion fins at ,7 and the "terminal "portion of the wire forms thetongue 8 which extends across the frame and the free end of which afterhaving been passed through the clearance notch 3 may be engaged and heldin the catch notch 5. The tongue when the device is in use is passedthrough the eye 9 of the shank of a button, the button shank having beenpassed through a suitable opening punched or otherwise made in thegarment or fabric on which the button is used and to prevent endwisemovement of the tongue in the eye of the button. The tongue is formed atits center with an offset portion 11 as shown.

To detach the button it is only necessary to remove the free end of thetongue from the catch notch, to then pass the free end of the tonguethrough the clearance and toward the garment and to then withdraw thetongue from the eye of the button.

My improved button fastener is extremely simple in constructionandenables a button to be securely fastened to a garment or *the likewithout injury to the garment and cially adapted for use in connectionwith a Q cloak or other like button 12 having a broad shank 13 providedwith a transversed eye 14, the tongue 15 of the button fastener being inthis instance straight from end to end and unprovided with the detentoffset. In this form of the invention the frame and the tongue areintegral and made from a single piece of wire, the frame being shown insaid Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawing as comprising a ring 1 having theclearance notch 3 and the catch notch 5 In the form of my inventionshown in Figs. 5 and 6 the frame comprises a flap sheet metal or othersuitable ring 15' having a narrowed portion 16 at one side and providedat the opposite side with a transverse depression forming a catch notch17, a clearance notch 18 being 011 the inner side of said ring and nearthe catch notch. The tongue 19 is made of spring wire of suitable messeslength and gage, extends across the ring or frame 15 and i secured atone end thereto by coils 20 which pass around the reduced or narrowedportion 16. The free end of the tongue may be passed through theclearance notch and engaged and held by the catch notch, as will beunderstood.

While I have herein shown and described a preferred form of my invention1- would have it understood that changes may be made in the form,proportion and construction of the several parts, without departing fromthe spirit of my invention and within the scope of the appended claim.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Having thus described my invention, What I claim is A buttonfastener comprising a frame to lie against the inner side of a fabricand around the eye of the button, and a tongue having one end attachedto one side of the frame, said tongue extending across the frame andbeing adapted to pass through the eye of the button and the frame beingprovided with a catch notch to secure and with a clearance notch topermit the re lease of the free end of the tongue. In testimony whereofI aflix my signature.

LESTER M. YOUNG.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C

